Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 35
There was a kind of sentry-house, where dwelt the venerable old superintendent of the fire brigade, who always arrived with the last engine.
Who acts: kind, fire brigade · What happens: be, dwell, arrive · To what, where: venerable old superintendent
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, fire brigade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sentry | punct |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dwelt | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 dwelt | advmod |
| 11 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 house | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 superintendent | det |
| 13 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 superintendent | amod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 superintendent | amod |
| 15 | superintendent | superintendent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwelt | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 brigade | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brigade | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brigade | compound |
| 19 | brigade | brigade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 superintendent | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arrived | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 arrived | nsubj |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 arrived | advmod |
| 23 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brigade | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 engine | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 engine | det |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 engine | amod |
| 27 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arrived | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a kind of sentry house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dwell | participle | the venerable old superintendent of the fire brigade | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme superintendent=Location | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the fire brigade | with the last engine; always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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